Training College Bursaries

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 172, 16 April 1932, Page 13

Training College Bursaries

Sir, —The Economy Commission proposes to abolish all bursaries, thereby depriving the clever hard-working child of people of small means from entering the teaching profession. It does not touch the university entrance scholarshins, which are practically a monopoly of the well-to-do. These scholarships pay all university fees and in addition give the city child £26 a year pocket money, and the country child £6O a year. The training college student from the eountry only receives £26 a year. A w.ell-tu-im friend of mine has all fees paid, from the Government pocket money, ami in addition earns £2 a week iu an otliec. The age-limit for the university entrance examination is 19, and it is only the rich who can afford, to keep their children that long at school. Why not abolish the scholarship, as .it stands, and use the money for part payment bursaries, limiting them to children, of parents receiving £6OO and under. _l have been told that in England, there is such a limit. —I am, etc., MOTHER O’ FIVE .Wellington. April 10. .